Stolen
by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
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"Nine-year-old Elsa witnesses the slaughter of her reindeer – a hate crime against the Indigenous Sámi community – and is threatened into silence by the killer. But when he strikes again a decade later, she is ready to take down both the killer and the criminal justice system that allowed him to terrorize her people with impunity. This coming-of-age thriller explores themes of white male entitlement, rural despair, generational trauma, colonialism and gatekeeping with a nuance that makes you forget its Swedish setting. Scandinavia, it turns out, is not as cozy-cabin-core as Americans like to imagine. In fact, it’s just like us."
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